All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I want people to draw strength from me.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I don’t regret anything.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I believe time wounds all heels.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.